Detonating toy.



No. 738,584. PATENTED SEPT. 8, 1908.

G. B. WENZEL.

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APPLICATION TILED 001. 22, 1902.

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PATENTED SEPT. 8, 1903.

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ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES;

Fatented September 8, 1903 CARL E. WENZEL, or NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

DETONATING TOY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 738,584, dated September 8, 1903. Application filed October 22, 1902. Serial No. 128,364. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CARL E. WENZEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New J ersey, have invented and produced a new and original Improvement in Detonating Toys; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the inven tion, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to numerals of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The objects of this invention are to enable,

a quick succession of explosions and loud reports to be made,in connection with atape having fulminating matter thereon, with greater facility and ease; to provide a toy which will be quick and sure to respond to the efforts of the operator and one that is of small cost of construction and yet durable and effective, and to secure other advantages and results, some of which may be referred to hereinafter in connection with the description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the improved detonating toy and in the arrangements and combinations of parts of the same, all substantially as will be hereinafter set forth and finally embraced in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several figures, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved toy. Fig. 2 is a similar view, one of the side plates being broken away to exhibitthe working parts more clearly. Fig.6 is a rear elevation of the same. Fig.4 is a detail showing the relation of an operating-lever to a hammer and cooperating parts. Figs. 5 and 6 are detail perspective views of certain tapeforwarding jaws. Figs. 7 and 8 show said jaws in operative relation to certain cooperating parts, and Fig. 9 is a detail perspective view of the operating-lever. Fig. 10 is a de tail side view of a certain bracket on which certain feeding-jaws are seated.

In said drawings, 10 indicates a carriage or frame, and 11 is the cannon, said cannon and carriage being cast in two integral sections 12 12, the section oiut running lengthwise of the cannon vertically through its axis and each section comprising a half of the cannon and one of the side plates of the frame or carriage cast in one piece. The sections are held together by pins or bolts extending horizontally from one section to the other or in any other suitable manner.

At or near the bottom of the carriage and vertically in line, or approximately so, with the rear end of the cannon is a pivotal bolt or shaft 13, formed integrally with the hammer 14, the latter extending away from said shaft a distance. sufficient to enable it to engage the rear or anvil end of the cannon, the said hammer. at its free end being curved upward or forward to properly engage said anvil end. At one side of said hainmerl l is cast or otherwise formed a finger 15, adapted to engage the operating-lever 16, the said finger being disposed about midway between the pivotal shaft 13 and the free end of the hammer. The operating-lever 16 is fulcrumed on a rivet or pin 17 on one of the side plates, said rivet or pin lying eccentric to the pivotal shaft 13 and a little above the same, and thus when said lever and hammer turn on their respective centers the finger 15, which extends into the path of the lever and engages the under edge of the lever when the latter is turned downward, slides on said lever a limited distance. It will be noticed upon examination of Figs. 3 and 9 that the operating-lever 16 at its side toward the hammer is transversely grooved, as at 18 and 19, the grooves serving as passage-ways through which the end of the finger 15 may pass to and from sliding relation with the rearward edge of the lever.

The groove 18, lying nearer the fulcrum of the lever, has aslightly-inclined bottom wall 20, adapted to engage finger,-the forward side of the lever at said groove being quite thin and at the rear edge somewhat thicker, so that when the lever is raised up it will engage the end of the finger and force the hammer laterally sufficient to permit the lever to pass to the front of. the finger. After such passage the hammer springs back to normal position, throwing the extremity of the finger beneath or at the rear of the lever, so that on the lever being drawn backward by the hand of the operator the hammer will be moved backward with it, the

the extremity of the a toward the second transverse parts turn on their differential finger sliding slot 19 as the centers.

When the lever and the hammer have been brought to the lower limits of their movements, the pin arrivesat the said second slot 19, and the hammer, acting under the exerted power of a spring 21, makes a return movement toward the anvil of the cannon and engages the same with sufficient force to explode a paper detonating cap interposed between. Thus by repeatedly oscillating the lever 16 by means of the hand the hammer 14 is caused to oscillate and repeatedly discharge the caps,

equal in distance one 'bracket.

so that explosions or detonations may be produced with a quickness commensurate with the quickness of the hand. The end of the finger may also be inclined or beveled, as

indicated in Fig. 3, to facilitate the passing thereof across the inner side lever.

The spring 21 for throwing the hammer 14 is preferably coiled upon the pivotal shaft 13, one end of said spring bearing on the frame or carriage l0 and the other against the hammer to force the latter against the anvil. end of the cannon. The pivotal shaft 13 is also provided with a curved arm 22, which extends forward, so as to be raised when the hammer 14 is depressed. Said arm 22 operates the tape feeding or forwarding devices adapted to clutch the tape having the explosive, fulminating, or detonating compound distributed along its surface, preferably at points from another to the length of movement of the tape clutching or grasping jaws, hereinafter more fully described.

Upon the frame or carriage 10, adjacent to the curved arm 22, is fixed a bracket 23, having ears 21L 24 engaging the inner side of one of the side plates of said carriage and having a vertical slotted extension 25, which serves as a seat for the sliding, forwarding, or feeding jaws 26 27, by which the detonatiug tape 28, Fig. 2, is grasped and moved forward preliminary to its being struck by the hammer to discharge the explosive compound. The sliding jaw 26 (shown in detail in Fig. 6) is of bent sheet metal vertically slotted at 29 to receive a headed pin or lug 30 on the bracket above or in line with the slot 31 in said bracket 25. Said jaw 26 is also provided with a fixed headed pin 50, which extends from said jaw 26 through and works in the slot 31 of the Thus arranged the pins in the slots serve to limit the jaw 26 to a vertical movement-in a direction toward and from the anvil end of the cannon. At the lower end of the jaw 26 the same is provided with a bearing 32 to receive the arm 22 of the pivotal shaft, so that when said arm is turned upward, as hereinbefore described, the said jaw will move in the direction of the slots. A reof the operating turn movement is given to said jaw 26 by a opposite ends to the and said jaw.

spring 33, attached at frame or carriage 10 Thus .of the jaw 27 to throw said the ing of considerable length to provide for dif-' ferences or variations in the position of the tape as it is being fed forward or upward. The jaw 26 serves as a carrier for the jaw 27, which latter is a bell-crank lever fulcrumed on the jaw 26 at and having at its upper end a clutching or grasping extension 36, bent or formed to lie parallel with the extension 34 on the jaw 26. As the lever-like jaw turns on its fulcrum 35 the extension 36 movesto' or from the extension 3st to grasp the tape lying between said extensions or to release the same. A spring 37, fastened at one end upon an arm 38 of the lever-like jaw and at the opposite end to the jaw 26, serves to normally hold said jaw 27 away from clutching relation to the tape. To force said jaw into clutching relation with the jaw 26, I employ a lever-like dog or pawl 39, pivoted or fulcrumed to the inner.side and lower end of the jaw 26 contiguous to the arm. 22 of the pivotal shaft of the hammer. Said dog or pawl 39 has two oppositely-extending fingers 40 and 41, one of which engages the arm 42 jaw into clutching relation, and the other finger, 41, of which is engaged by the curved arm 22. When the jaws are in their lower positions and the hammer is held up against the cannon, as in Figs. 3 and 4, and the said jaws are parted, being held away from one another by the spring 37, upon turning the operating-lever and the hammer downward and the arm 22 upward the latter immediately engages the finger 41, pressing it upward, so that it turns dog or pawl on. its. fulcrum'and causes the finger 40 to press the arm 42 and close the jaws against the tape. The same movement of the arm 22 raises the jaws vertically, and thus the clutched tape is also raised or fed forward to theanvil. The parts are furthermore so arranged and relatively constructed that when the tape has been sufliciently fed or moved forward the parts will have so changed their relation as that the continued upward pressure on the finger 41 will throw the finger 40 away from the jaw 27 and permit the spring 37 to open the said jaws, the said jaws being released from the tape just before the hammer strikes the anvil, so that as the strike is being effected and the tape thus held the jaws are descending under the power of the spring 33 preliminary to again grasping the tape. Thus constructed the lever 16 has only to be worked back and forth by the hand to effect repeated concussions of the hammer on the anvil or tape therebetween and a step-by-step forward movement of the tape.

I am aware that various modifications of construction can be employed without departing from the spirit or scope of the inven tion, and so I do not wish to-be understood when describing the detail construction of the preferred device as limiting myself by the many positive expressions employed excepting as the prior state of the art may render necessary.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is- 1. The combination with a carriage and a cannon cast integral with said carriage and having an anvil at its rearward end, of an operating-lever stationed at the rear of said cannon and fulcrumed below said rear end, ahammer pivotally movable on said carriage, a spring for throwing the hammer against the anvil, feeding devices adapted to forward a tape toward the anvil, said feeding devices being forwarded and said hammer being retracted by said operating-lever, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination'with a carriage and a cannon cast integral with said carriage and having an anvil at its rearward end, of an operating-lever stationed at the rear of said cannon and fulcrumed below said rear end, a hammer pivotally movable on said carriage, a spring for throwing the hammer against the anvil, feeding devices comprising jaws adapted to grasp a tape therebetween and adapted to forward the tape toward the anvil, said feeding devices being forwarded and said hammer being retracted by said operatinglever, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination with a carriage and a cannon cast integral with said carriage and having an anvil at its rearward end, of an operating-lever stationed at the rear of said cannon and fulcrumed below said rear end, a hammer pivotally movable on said carriage, a spring for throwing the hammer against the anvil, feeding devices comprising verticallymovable jaws disposed below the anvil and adapted to grasp a tape at a low point in its vertical movement and release from the tape at a high point in said movement, said jaws being opened apart from the tape and moved toward the anvil by the operating-lever, and

. connections between said lever and said jaws,

substantially as set forth.

4. In a detonating toy, the combination with an anvil and hammer, of jaws movable back and forth from and toward said anvil,

one of said jaws being carried by the other of said jaws and an arm adapted to raise the carrying-jaw and operate intermediate connections with the carried jaw whereby said carried jaw will move, away from grasping relation with the carrying-jaw, and said intermediate connections, and springs for returning said arm and jaws to initial positions,

substantially as set forth.

5. The combination with a carriage, and a cannon cast integral with said carriage and having an anvil at its rearward end, of an operating-lever stationed at the rear of said cannon and fulcrumed below said rear end, a hammer pivotally movable on said carriage and having an arm 22, a spring for throwing the hammer against the anvil, feeding devices comprising vertically-movable jaws disposed below the anvil and adapted to grasp a tape at a low point in its vertical movement and release from the tape at a high point in said movement, said jaws being opened apart from the tape and moved toward the anvil 'by the operating-lever, a dog carried by one of said jaws and having an arm to engage the other of said jaws, and an arm 22, movable with the hammer, substantially as set forth.

6. In a detonating toy, the combination with the carriage having an elevated anvil, of a slotted bracket, a slotted carrying-jaw movable toward and from the anvil, headed pins working in said slots, a bell-crank jaw carried by said slotted jaw, a dog fulcrumed on said slotted jaw and having an arm engaging the carried jaw and another arm to engage an arm of the hammer, a spring connecting the carried and carrying jaws, a hammer engaging the anvil and having an arm to engage the dog and a finger to be engaged by the operating-lever, a spring to give return movementto the hammer, a spring to give return movement to the jaws, and an operating-lever adapted to engage the finger of the hammer, substantially as set forth.

7. In a detonating toy the combination with the carriage having an elevated anvil, of a slotted bracket, a slotted jaw movable toward and from the anvil, headed pins working in said slots, a bell-crank jaw carried by said slotted jaw, a dog fulcrumed on said slotted jaw having anarm engaging the carried jaw and another arm to engage an arm of the hammer, a spring connecting the carried and carrying jaws, a hammer engaging the anvil and having an arm to engage the dog and a finger to be engaged by the operating-lever, a spring to give return movement to the hammer, a spring to give return movement to the jaws, and an operating-lever fulcrumed below the anvil at a point eccentric to the center of movement of the hammer and adapted to engage the finger of the hammer, substantially as set forth.

8. In a detonating toy, the combination with the carriage having an elevated anvil, of a slotted bracket, a slotted jaw movable toward and from the anvil, headed pins workthe anvil and having an arm versely-grooved operating-lever fulcrumed at a distance from the anvil eccentric to the center of movement of the hammer, substantially as set forth.

9. In a detonating toy, the combination with the anvil, of a hammer t'ulcrumed at a point distant from the anvil, said hammer having a laterally-extending finger, a spring for giving movement to said hammer and an operating-lever adapted to give movement to said hammer opposed to that of the spring and having transverse grooves through which the finger of the hammer may pass, substantially as set forth.

10. In a detonating toy, the combination with the anvil of a hammer fulcrumed'at a point distant from the anvil, said hammer having a laterally-extending finger,

a spring for giving movement to said hammer and an operating-lever adapted to give movement to said hammer opposed to that of the spring and having transverse grooves through which the finger of the hammer may pass, the bottom or surface 20, of one of said grooves being inclined to the plane of movement of said lever, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 14th day of October, 1902.

CARL E. WENZE L.

Vitnesses:

CHARLES H. PELL, O. B. PITNEY. 

